Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
Publications
Our workforce data, information and intelligence publications are all available from this section of the web-site. Immediately below are quick links to our most recent publications. More detailed information on each publication can be found on our Detailed Data page
| Date | Publication | |
| Feb 25 | Economic and social value of the UK adult social care sector: Scotland | Here |
| Nov 24 | Analysis of diversity data and research report November 2024 | Here |
| Nov 24 | Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey at June 2024 | Here |
| Oct 24 | Register annual report 2023 to 2024 | Here |
| Aug 24 | Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2023 Workforce Data | Here |
| Aug 24 | Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2023 | Here |
| Apr 24 | Digital Capabilities within the Adult Social Care Workforce in Scotland | Here |
| Feb 24 | The Distribution of the Social Service Workforce Report | Here |
| Jan 24 | The Fitness to Practise report | Here |
| Oct 23 | Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey | Here |
| Sep 23 | The 2022 Staff vacancies in care services report | Here |
| Sep 23 | Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2022 Workforce Data | Here |
| Sep 23 | Register annual report 2022 to 2023 | Here |
| Aug 23 | Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2022 | Here |
| Jun 23 | Movement of Day Care of Children Staff Report | Here |
| Nov 22 | Staff vacancies in care services 2021 | Here |
| Quarterly | Registration and Early Learning and Childcare data | Here |
August 2020
Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2019 Workforce Data
27
Aug
2020
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2019 Workforce Data.
Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2019
13
Aug
2020
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2019.
May 2020
Provisional official statistics on the Scottish social service workforce 2019
18
May
2020
Notice: This provisional data was produced during Spring 2020 to assist with COVID planning that was required at that time. It has now been superseded by the Official Statistics publication Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2019 Workforce Data. Some data may differ between the publications as further cleaning and verification took place. To avoid confusion, we have disabled the download links below. We will publish an updated version of this data in due course. If you need to access this data as it was please contact us.
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published provisional Official Statistics on the social service workforce.
This is the first occasion that the SSSC has published provisional Official Statistics and we have done this to support planning for registered care services and local authority social work services in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
April 2020
March 2020
Staff vacancies in care services 2018 report
08
Mar
2020
In January 2020 the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) published new figures on the levels of staff vacancies in Scotland’s social care services.
As with the previous report, this report provides a national overview of vacancies and recruitment difficulties reported by care services to the Care Inspectorate, the body which registers and inspects all social care services. It also includes data on vacancies as a percentage of whole time equivalent (WTE) as a proportion of total WTE workforce held by the SSSC.
February 2020
Adults' services workforce tables - 2018
03
Feb
2020
These tables look in detail at the adults' services workforce in Scotland. They supplement data already published in the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2018 Workforce Data.
